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Ugh. So basically when programming was unskilled and considered one step up from being a secretary, women did that and men built the machines themselves. As so
by peoplewindow 9y ago
Ugh. So basically when programming was unskilled and considered one step up from being a secretary, women did that and men built the machines themselves.
As software became a larger and larger component of the machines, and more and more complex, it became dominated by men. This, we learn, is because men made it more rigorous and scientific as part of some bizarre sexist plot.
Or maybe the nature of programming today is pretty different to how it was in the immediate post-war years, and the kinds of jobs women can get changed too.
- cmiles74 9y agoI'd bet that as the field grew, they eventually had a surplus of engineers working on new hardware and a deficit of people working to write new software. Once there were men willing to do the work, they were seen as a better bet than the women already in the field. The same thing happened after WW2, this isn't a new pattern.